Re: Packaging virtual machine images .ova?
Paul Wise:
> Debian doesn't yet have the ability to create non-hacky pre-installed
> images. All our pre-installed images (currently only live images) are
> produced by configuring as per normal and then removing host-specific
> files (like OpenSSH keys), which is a bit hacky. Ideally
> dpkg/apt/packages would have a "generically configured" state and
> debootstrap/d-i would have an "OEM mode" and systems installed in this
> state would do needed host-specific configuration on initial boot.
>
> Once we have the ability to create generic images, the right place to
> build/distribute them will be on the cdimage.d.o infrastructure,
> rather than from the package archive.
>
> There are some unofficial qemu images available but they aren't well
> integrated with our official image production infrastructure.
What I meant to ask, is more:
"What about having let's say for example an OpenBSD virtual machine
image in Debian repository?"
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